New Revised Standard Version
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

Contemporary English Version
Swarm after swarm of locusts has attacked our crops, eating everything in sight.

New American Bible
What the cutter left, the swarming locust has devoured; What the swarming locust left, the hopper has devoured; What the hopper left, the consuming locust has devoured.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.

That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.

That which the palmer-worm hath left.

Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years which the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm hath eaten; my great host which I sent upon you.

Amos 4:9 I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm hath eaten up your many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves, and fig groves: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

The learned Bochart, and others, are of the opinion that the four Hebrew words, {gazam, yelek, arbeh, chasil}, respectively rendered the palmer-worm, locust, canker-worm and caterpillar, denote four different species of locusts. See on

Exodus 10:4 But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts;

the locust eaten.

Exodus 10:12-15 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb that is left after the hail. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:38,42 Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all. . . .

1 Kings 8:37 If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them, besieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,

2 Chronicles 6:28 If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall be upon them:

2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders, and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:

Psalm 78:46 And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

Psalm 105:34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.

Amos 7:1 But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.

Revelation 9:3-7 And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. . . .

the canker-worm eaten.

Nahum 3:15-17 There shall the fire devour thee: thou shalt perish by the sword, it shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the bruchus, make thyself many like the locust. . . .

the caterpillar.

Isaiah 33:4 And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are gathered, as when the ditches are full of them.

Jeremiah 51:14,27 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill thee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against thee. . . .